Job Opportunities with Gonga
Gonga is creating one of the coolest and most innovative social commerce sites online. As an original Gonga-Guru, you are part of a great team of individuals that strives on building and innovation. Lets face it, we have all been multi-gazillionares with “air equity” – you know, where startups give you so many options and shares that end up being worth nothing. At Gonga, we believe that your time and efforts are always worth something and have created an environment that serves to empower you and encourages you to empower others. Through ideas, creative thinking, a no-quit attitude and a culture that only believes in success, Gonga is a revolutionary company that is only seeking the best!Gonga will be rewarding its Gonga-Gurus with great salaries and employment packages, plus numerous perks and benefits:
- Medical plans with no premium for employees
- 401(k) plan
- Great vacation packages, plus 8 company holidays and 2 floating holidays
- Complimentary catered breakfast, lunch and dinner daily
- Complimentary beverages and snacks
- Free MetroCards for commuters
- Up to $200 per month in commuting expenses
- Catered Friday Happy Hours at the office
- Work on top of the line computers with big monitors!
- Equity we believe will actually be worth more than the paper its written on
- Work for one of the coolest new companies around!
CSS/HTML Coder - New York, NY
Gonga, Inc. is looking for a front-end web coder with extremely strong CSS skills. The ideal candidate will work closely with the Creative Director in a fast-paced and hands-on environment.
Candidate Must:
- Have extremely strong CSS skills and help create the framework for an entire CSS site
- Understand the basic relationship between CSS and ASP to help achieve seamless integration with back-end development
- Have a clear understanding of cross-browser compatibility and test accordingly
- Have a strong sense of design to help add elements within style guidelines set forth by Creative Director
- Be able to work quickly and efficiently, meeting tight deadlines
- Have a collaborative spirit with an understanding of a start-up environment
- Excellent CSS and HTML Coding skills
- Strong Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver skills
- Example URLs required
Manager, Business Development - New York, NY
Gonga is seeking a Manager of Business Development who is obsessed with technology, social media and business strategy. The ideal candidate will have 3-5 years of business development experience in the consumer Internet space with a heavy emphasis on negotiations, strategic planning/analysis and channel management. People who are most sought after will involve helping source strategic business opportunities, developing a strong understanding of partner strategy, negotiating agreements to completion, internal process management, and maintaining ongoing relationships between Gonga and key partners. Business Development at Gonga is responsible for negotiating partnerships that generate new revenue streams, enhance and drive distribution of the Gonga brand online and offline, generate new users for the company and focus on adding value to the Gonga user experience. The position is full-time and based in our main office in midtown New York City, NY. This position will report to the VP of Business Development.
Responsibilities:
- Work with the Marketing and Sales team to explore and secure advertising and cross-promotion deals that require product integration and/or other non-standard business terms
- Negotiate distribution deals with large consumer online companies to create new entry points around the Web for new and existing Gonga users
- Evaluate and explore strategic opportunities
- Represent Gonga in meetings with senior executives from other companies
- Comfort with a fast-paced, always-on, highly charged start-up environment
- Ability to think outside the box and communicate with creative thought process
- Active Contributor to evolving group environment
- Extensive knowledge of online business models and Internet/consumer technology
- Proven track record with high standards of professionalism
- Exceptional interpersonal skills and ability to develop strong working relationships inside and outside Gonga
- Creative, resourceful, detail-oriented, highly organized
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to meet multiple objectives in an entrepreneurial environment with little supervision
- Extensive negotiation experience, including comfort with legal aspects of negotiations
- Prior experience working in a high-growth or startup technology company preferred
Business Analyst (Technical) - New York, NY
Gonga is seeking an experienced Business Analyst who is a Self-starter with a “can-do” attitude in a fast-moving business environment to join the IT team and help build and maintain IT applications footprint. The ideal candidate will have experience in process management and at least 3-5 years experience with new product development or an internet based company. This is a full-time position based in our main office in midtown, New York City, NY and will report to the Director of IT.
Responsibilities:
- Gather and document business requirements on all IT projects
- Document and manage business process flows charts
- Provide hands-on functional & configuration support for applications in areas including Sales, Order Management, Ad Operations, Finance and HR
- Assist in defining and optimizing simple yet effective business processes and drive change within the organization through consensus-building
- Ensure initiatives follow the proper planning, scheduling and management processes
- Manage on-time project delivery and business expectations and ensure internal customer satisfaction
- Provide hands on analysis, design, testing, implementation and post implementation support
- Configure applications based on requirements submitted by business partners and best practices
- Promote user adoption by preparing training documentation and conduct training sessions for business users
- Build test cases & manage User Acceptance Tests
- Assist with risk management and change management on projects
- Create ad-hoc reports, queries and data extracts as requested
- Provide day-to-day support and quality assurance for projects and tasks
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
- 3 + years as business analyst in high tech or product development company
- Worked on 2+ Order to Cash/ERP implementations with hands-on experience in configuration and customizations
- Strong business acumen and working knowledge of functional and procedural process modeling methodologies
- Strong knowledge of project management fundamentals and experience running small to mid-size projects
- Ability to multi-task across multiple concurrent projects is required
- Experience in software development lifecycle processes and methodologies on multiple project
- Strong customer interaction, organizational and time-management skills required
- Experience with SQL applications a plus